The database provides some details on $3.5 billion in drug- and device-related payments to doctors for consulting, research, and other purposes during the last five months of 2013. CMS initially ...

Doctors can use a government database to compare their practice patterns to others across the nation, says a former Wall Street trader turned physician. The database, maintained by the Centers for ...

Entrepreneurs and other private-sector innovators will soon, for the first time, have access to voluminous federal healthcare data stores, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced ...

CMS on Thursday debuted a free public database aimed at supporting interoperable exchange of electronic health information when and where it is needed. The Data Element Library, or DEL, lets users see ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has vowed to learn from the mistakes it made in its first round of publishing data about financial relationships between providers and healthcare ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced what it calls the Data Element Library, aimed to help advance electronic health record interoperability in long-term and post-acute care ...

Prior to CMS's release, these documents were available only after members of the public or news media filed Freedom of Information Act or state public records requests. "It was a time-consuming ...

HUDSON, Ohio--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Health division of Wolters Kluwer, a leading global provider of information and point of care solutions for the healthcare industry, announced that Lexi-Drugs ®, the ...